➡️ For more information about how Buttonizer is compliant with the EU GDPR, check out this page 🚀
In short:
Yes. Buttonizer sets cookies, but only in a several situations and it won't track your visitors. It's following the EU GDPR law, you do not need to ask permissions from your visitors for the cookies that Buttonizer sets.
What is GDPR?
The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is a European law that prevents websites to set cookies concerning the privacy of the website visitor. The law is for cookies that track the user and are not for functional use.
The cookies that Buttonizer sets are only functional cookies.
What kind of cookies does Buttonizer sets?
Buttonizer will only set functional cookies in the following situations:
Open Buttonizer menu by default at first page load (cookie name: buttonizer_live_groups_opened, cookie type: boolean)
This cookie will only be made when the setting Start opened is enabled in the menu button settings. The cookie is used to remember if the group is closed or opened so that when the user navigates to another page, the group will not always start opened.
Show Buttonizer menu after several amount of seconds (cookie name: buttonizer-first-visit, cookie type: timestamp)
This cookie will only be made when a group is using the Show on timeout setting and has the timeout setting Trigger only once enabled. The cookie is used to trigger the timeout only once.
Buttonizer exit intent, when set on 'only once per browser session'. (session name: buttonizer_exit_intent_triggered, session type: timestamp, feature in Buttonizer Pro)
This session storage value will only be made when a group is using the Exit Intent setting and has the exit intent setting Only trigger once per page. The session storage value is used to only trigger the exit intent once per session.
Open and close button on first time group has loaded in (session name: open_and_close_attention, session type: string)
This session storage value will only be made when a menu button is using the Open menu and close on first load setting. The session storage value is used to remember which group has triggered this setting so that it only trigger once per session.
All cookies of Buttonizer are described in Cookiedatabase.org.
Buttonizer does not set any other cookies that will track your user behaviour. It won't be necessary to ask your visitors permissions about the cookies that Buttonizer sets.
Site owners decision
It's up to you what you do with the cookies Buttonizer sets, if you read the cookies in the backend and do other things with them than we've intended, then you should ask your visitors for permission before you do that.
When you use Buttonizer in a correct way, Buttonizer is following the GDPR.
Otherwise you'll need to ask permissions for whatever you're doing with the cookies if it's concerning the privacy of the visitor.
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